The Hello Machine is a fascinating short film directed in 1974 by Carroll Ballard.It shows the mind-boggling process of making AT&T's Electronic Switch System mainframe by hand, a formidable machine was built after 20 years of research and spending 500 million dollars—2,4 billion in 2014 dollars!»1/15/15 7:34am 1/15/15 7:34am

It's hard to imagine the size and hostility of Antarctica from the comfort of our warm homes. Its overwhelming vastness feels like an alien world right here on Earth. Yet, this Wes Andersonian documentary makes it look fun to live there. These are the daily adventures of the people who work at Union Glacier, in West…»12/08/14 5:36pm 12/08/14 5:36pm

Acute subdural hematoma is the technical name of one of the deadliest of all head injuries. This video shows how you get rid of it, which involves opening the brain and removing the clogged blood. It's really gross, but incredibly fascinating too. Warning: STRONG IMAGES.»11/12/14 3:35am 11/12/14 3:35am

Data Looks Dope's Max Einstein sent us his new creation: What the top 100 porn stars look like. At the top you can you can see the breast cup size. At the bottom there's the top 100 actresses as ranked in Xvideos.com along with body measuring information according Internet Adult Film Database. »10/13/14 7:52pm 10/13/14 7:52pm

All my life using Adobe Illustrator and it's only now when I learn how it draws vector curves—technically called Bézier curves. If you are an illustrator, you will love this. If you are not, it's fascinating anyway. In fact, it is one of the most interesting videos I've seen this year. »10/03/14 1:40am 10/03/14 1:40am

Everyone's talking about tomorrow's supermoon—how big, bright, and beautiful it will be. It's always the same. But how big is it going to be, exactly? This image shows how much the moon size varies in the sky from its perigee (it's closest point to Earth) to its apogee (the furthest point from Earth.) »9/08/14 9:25am 9/08/14 9:25am

Sploid reader Marius Vibe merged eight of the most beautiful women in the world into a single person. The final result is intriguing, but the best part is the process itself—and the intermediate morphs. Who is more beautiful—the originals, the intermediate mixes, or the merging of them all? »8/28/14 3:19pm 8/28/14 3:19pm

Maybe one day—when we get an X-Men vs Avengers movie crossover—we will see Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) morphing into the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). Until then we will have this fan morph, which looks surprisingly beautiful. »8/26/14 10:31am 8/26/14 10:31am

Michael Stevens explains why darkness moves faster than light in this new episode of Vsauce. I usually find these explainers interesting because they delve not only into multiple science disciplines but often they touch philosophical questions too. This one really blew my mind.»7/29/14 6:10pm 7/29/14 6:10pm

You're looking at Buzz Aldrin lifting his boot before taking the photo of the most iconic footprint in history. It's one of the many discarded Apollo images stored in NASA's archives. Here's a collection of those rare, funny, intimate, and always fascinating views to celebrate the 45 anniversary of the landing on the… »7/20/14 4:48pm 7/20/14 4:48pm

"We can say little, if anything, about what these patterns [above] signify, why they were cut into rocks, or who created them. For all intents and purposes, they might have been made by aliens." When a new NASA book on alien communicationshas a paragraph like that, you better pay attention. »5/21/14 12:10am 5/21/14 12:10am

Two separate teams of scientists have announced that blood transfusions from young individuals make older individuals younger, fixing their hearts and curing aging brains. Speaking to the New York Times, Harvard Medical School's professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi, "these findings could be a game changer." »5/04/14 9:29pm 5/04/14 9:29pm

Put on your headphones and enjoy this fascinating view over the shoulder of a watchmaker, full of beautifully crispy closeups of the manufacturing and assembly of a Nomos Glashütte watch. I only have one complaint: I wish it weren't three minutes but five hours long—my autonomous sensory meridian response was off the… »4/08/14 1:58pm 4/08/14 1:58pm